The Inga 3 project involves the construction of a large dam and a 4,800 megawatt hydro-electric plant spanning a channel of the vast Congo River, the world’s second largest by volume, at the Inga Falls. The 14 billion dollar project is being fast-tracked by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s government. The Inga 3 Hydropower Project According
The environmental license for one of the most extensive dams in Brazil has been denied. A valuable and sensitive area of the Amazon has been spared.
The Kariba Dam lies on the Zambezi River, straddling the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, and is the world’s largest manmade reservoir by capacity. It is aging, raising grave concerns such as the possibility of chemical reactions occurring, as well as seepages and cracks on its wall forming. The dam is also vulnerable to earthquakes
Il cedimento della struttura potrebbe provocare la morte di quasi 1,5 milioni di iracheni che vivono lungo il Tigri. Il governo iracheno precisa però che il rischio è molto basso.
Il disastro minerario avvenuto in Brasile tre settimane fa ha devastato il bacino del Rio Doce e dei suoi affluenti, seminando morte tra gli animali e disperazione tra i pescatori.
In seguito al cedimento di due dighe, nel sud est del Brasile, i liquami velenosi sono arrivati nell’Oceano Atlantico e potrebbero impiegare 100 anni prima di essere riassorbiti completamente.
Oltre alle vittime umane il crollo delle dighe in Brasile ha ucciso e ferito un grande numero di animali. Un cane però ce l’ha fatta.
The dam burst of 5 November is one of the worst mining disasters in Brazil’s history, and could have irreparably contaminated the area.
Gibe III, now almost complete, is one of Africa’s largest dams. Like its predecessors Gibe I and II it diverts the flow of the Omo River in Ethiopia, which feeds 90% of Lake Turkana in Kenya, the world’s most extensive desert lake. 260,000 indigenous people from 17 ethnic groups live in the Lower Omo Valley,
